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Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincey,
Walter Savage Landor and others are some of the most outstanding prose writers
of the Romantic Revival.
Charles Lamb (1776-1834) was a man of letters par
excellence. He is known as a poet, novelist, dramatist, critic and essayist of
the period of Romantic Revival.
1.As a poet he earned popularity with his poems 'The
Old Familiar Faces' and 'To Hester'.
2.As a novelist he wrote 'Rosamond Grey' (1798).
3.As a storyteller, he published 'Tales from
Shakespeare' (1807) and 'Adventures of Ulysses' written in collaboration with
his sister Mary.
4.He published a tragedy 'John Woodvil' (1802) which
is written in Elizabethan style.
5.As a critic, he is known by his 'Specimens of
English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare' (1808) wherein he
eulogises the lesser known dramatists in the times of Shakespeare. His 'Essays
of the Tragedies of Shakespeare' (1811) also contribute immensely in the study
of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
6.As an essayist, Lamb is famous for his 'Essays of
Elia' published in 'London Magazine' published in two series in 1823 and 1833.
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